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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Casa for the Holidays Blog Tour + Giveaway

For today’s Casa for the Holidays guest blog, our
Christmas romance authors are telling us what their heroines will ask for
Christmas this year…

Juliana Stone, The
Christmas He Loved Her

The Christmas He Loved Her is not your typical warm and fuzzy Christmas
story.It’s a book about love and loss,
but ultimately, it’s a book about hope.

My heroine, Raine, has been
through a lot in her young life.When
the story begins, she’s pretty much lost everything. But then Jake Edwards
walks back into her life and something uncoils in her.At first it’s anger, resentment maybe…but
there is something else.Something more.

It’s hope.For Christmas, all this woman wants and needs
is hope.Because with hope there is love
and at the end of the day, what more could anyone want?

Grace Burrowes, Lady
Jenny’s Christmas Portait

Lady Jenny Windham, heroine
of Lady Jenny’s Christmas Portrait,
was one of many people for whom the holidays are difficult. For most of us,
Yuletide can be tiring, expensive, and overly social. Jenny’s holidays were
over shadowed by losses suffered during holidays past, and she’s reminded of
those griefs year after year. Worse, the rest of her family, who shared in some
of those bereavements, seems to go merrily along, hanging mistletoe, eating
goodies, and swilling wassail.

One thread of the holiday
tradition that has always struck a chord with me is the stranger, the
friendless wanderer coping with winter’s chill and social marginalization. “No
room at the inn,” is a sentiment we’ve all felt, whether it was on the second
grade playground when a soccer game was organizing, or on the volunteer
committee that seemed so welcoming when we first joined.

Lady Jenny was the odd
sibling out, the last one to wed, the one with peculiar ambitions, the one who
couldn’t shake loose of her grief. She found somebody—just one person, but a
good one person—to accept her the way she was, with all those untidy, seasonally
inappropriate emotions, and to love her enough that she could accept them in
herself. For Christmas, Jenny came home, in a sense, because somebody lit a
candle of love and kept it burning brightly enough that she could find her way
through the night.

And that would be her
Christmas wish for you: That when winter sets in, and you’re left out in the
cold and dark, tired and dispirited, no room at the inn, somebody holds up a
candle of love for you, and keeps it burning brightly enough that you can find
your way home to the Christmas that’s waiting for you.

Terry Spear, A
SEAL Wolf Christmas

My heroine, Anna, would ask a man
who she can protect as much as he can watch her back. (I tell you, it's all
part of the missions they go on!—No sweet little housewife or house-husband
sitting at home.) A man she can spar with, shoot with, run with, and have fun
with. A man with a sense of humor who can play as well as do the serious
business. He has to be into forever—just like a real wolf is.

Carolyn
Brown, The Cowboy’s Christmas Baby

It was the strangest Christmas
Natalie had ever spent so when Lucas asked her one day exactly what she wanted
she couldn’t answer him at all…not truthfully, anyway.

“What do you want for Christmas,
Natalie?”

“I want—” She blushed. She
couldn’t tell him that she wanted to be a permanent part of Cedar Hill Ranch
and that she wanted him to accept Joshua as a real son. Lord, that would be
asking for more than Santa Claus could stuff in his sleigh.

“What?” he pressured. “For real,
what do you want?”

“I’ll think about it and let you
know later. What do you want?”

“You,” he said without taking his
eyes off her. “I came home in one piece and you were waiting for me.”

GIVEAWAY

To enter to win a prize pack of all 4 of these Christmas
authors’ novels, tell us what you’re asking for this Christmas in the comments, along with your email address!
This contest is open internationally. The winner will be announced December 20th.

I asked for Amazon gift cards. I have a huge list of books on my wish list.Or the newest Kindle. These books all sound like fantastic reads by some pretty awesome Authors.Carol LLucky4750 (at) aol (dot) com

Books, Books, & more Books, or gift cards to buy my own books. These sound like great holiday books and I am looking forward to reading them. Thanks for sharing them and the giveaway. Wishing everyone a wonderful and magical holiday season! evamillien at gmail dot com

We are going home for Christmas, I am not asking for anything (although I know I will get plenty) but that my hubby will be relaxed and happy and his health will get better so that he can be the man he used to be. I hope for him that we will have snow for Christmas. :)

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